| Main Entry: | average |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | normal, typical |
Synonyms: |
boilerplate, common, commonplace, customary, dime a dozen, everyday, fair, fair to middling, familiar, garden*, garden-variety, general, humdrum*, intermediate, mainstream, mediocre, medium, middle of the road, middling, moderate, nowhere, ordinary, passable, plastic, regular, run of the mill, so-so, standard, tolerable, undistinguished, unexceptional, usual |
Antonyms: |
abnormal, atypical, exceptional, extraordinary, extreme, outstanding, unusual |
| Main Entry: | commonplace |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | usual, everyday |
Synonyms: |
boiler plate, characterless, clichéd, colorless, conventional, corny*, customary, dime-a-dozen, familiar, familiar tune, garden variety, hackneyed, humdrum, lowly, mainstream, matter-of-course, mediocre, middle-of-the-road, middling, mundane, natural, normal, obvious, ordinary, pedestrian, plebeian, prevalent, prosaic, run-of-the-mill, stale, starch, stereotyped, threadbare, trite, typical, uneventful, unexceptional, uninteresting, unnoteworthy, vanilla, widespread, workaday, worn-out |
Antonyms: |
exceptional, infrequent, peculiar, rare, uncommon, unusual |
| Main Entry: | everyday |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | common |
Synonyms: |
accustomed, average, commonplace, conventional, customary, daily, dime a dozen, dull, familiar, frequent, garden variety, habitual, informal, lowly, mainstream, middle-of-the-road, mundane, normal, ordinary, per diem, plain, prosaic, quotidian, routine, run-of-the-mill, stock, unexceptional, unimaginative, unremarkable, usual, vanilla, whitebread, wonted, workaday |
| Notes: | everyday is an adjective and it means 'casual' or 'informal' with an implied contrast to formality, as well as the meaning of 'familiar, ordinary' in contrast with 'strange, unusual'; the time expression is written separately - every day |
Antonyms: |
abnormal, different, exceptional, special, uncommon, unexpected, unfamiliar, unusual |
| Main Entry: | familiar |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | common, well-known |
Synonyms: |
accustomed, commonplace, conventional, customary, domestic, everyday, frequent, garden variety, habitual, homespun, household, humble, informal, intimate, known, matter-of-fact, mundane, native, natural, old hat, ordinary, plain, prosaic, proverbial, recognizable, repeated, routine, simple, stock, unceremonious, unsophisticated, usual, wonted, workaday |
Antonyms: |
foreign, new, strange, uncommon, undistinguished, unfamiliar, unknown, unremarkable |
| Main Entry: | humdrum |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | boring, uneventful |
Synonyms: |
arid, banausic, blah, bromidic, common, commonplace, dim, dime a dozen, drab, dreary, dull, everyday, garden-variety, insipid, lifeless, monotone, monotonous, mundane, ordinary, pedestrian, plodding, prosy, repetitious, routine, tedious, tiresome, toneless, treadmill, uninteresting, unvaried, vanilla, wearisome, white-bread |
Antonyms: |
busy, eventful, exciting, lively, unusual |
| Main Entry: | ordinary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | average; not distinctive |
Synonyms: |
characterless, common, commonplace, conventional, dull, fair, familiar, garden variety, garden*, generic, habitual, homespun, household, humble, indifferent, inferior, mean, mediocre, modest, no great shakes, normal, pedestrian, plain, plastic, prosaic, quotidian, routine, run-of-the-mill, second-rate, simple, so-so, stereotyped, undistinguished, uneventful, unexceptional, uninspired, unmemorable, unnoteworthy, unpretentious, unremarkable, usual, vanilla, white-bread, workaday |
Antonyms: |
different, distinctive, remarkable, special |
| Main Entry: | prosaic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unimaginative |
Synonyms: |
actual, banal, blah*, boring, clean, colorless, common, commonplace, dead*, diddly, drab, dry, dull, everyday, factual, flat*, garden-variety, hackneyed, ho-hum, humdrum*, irksome, lackluster, lifeless, literal, lowly, lusterless, matter-of- fact, monotonous, mundane, nothing, nowhere, ordinary, pabulum, pedestrian, platitudinous, plebeian, practicable, practical, prose, prosy, routine, square, stale, tame, tedious, trite, uneventful, unexceptional, uninspiring, vanilla, vapid, workaday, yawn, zero* |
Antonyms: |
creative, imaginative, interesting, thinking |
| Main Entry: | run-of-the-mill |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | average |
Synonyms: |
common, commonplace, customary, dime a dozen, everyday, fair, fair to middling, garden-variety, humdrum, intermediate, mainstream, mediocre, medium, middle of the road, middling, ordinary, regular, routine, so-so, undistinguished, unexceptional, usual |
| Main Entry: | standard |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | regular, approved |
Synonyms: |
accepted, authoritative, average, basic, boilerplate, canonical, classic, common, customary, definitive, established, everyday, garden variety, general, normal, official, orthodox, popular, prevailing, recognized, regulation, run-of-the-mill, set, staple, stock, typical, usual, vanilla |
Antonyms: |
abnormal, different, irregular, unusual |
| Main Entry: | undistinguished |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ordinary |
Synonyms: |
average, characterless, common, commonplace, dull, everyday, fair, garden-variety, generic, mean, mediocre, modest, no great shakes, normal, nothing special, nothing to write home about, pedestrian, plain, prosaic, routine, run-of-the-mill, second-rate, so-so, typical, uneventful, unexceptional, unexciting, uninspired, unmemorable, unnoteworthy, unremarkable, usual |